[Sheflug] Re: messengers

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug

> I'm wanting to install linux on my mum's pc.  Suse or mandrake are
> ideal for her.  She only uses her pc for the odd games, e-mail,
> browsing, webcam and messengers.
> So before I go and install....which she is happy for me to do, I
> need to find out that she can still do what she does now.
> I don't use messengers myself,  but are the messengers on offer as
> good as aol, msn and yahoo?  Can they still send smiley's etc?  

Kopete

http://kopete.kde.org/

> Can 
> anyone recommend a program for the webcam?  To enable chat etc

Gnomemeeting but check out the hardware and make sure it works :)

http://www.gnomemeeting.org/

Was thinking about having a go at this myself but can't find someone 
to try it out on.


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Richard

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